US4696441A - Missile referenced beamrider - Google Patents
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- Beamrider missile systems utilize a form of line of sight missile guidance in which a beam of spatially encoded electromagnetic radiation is projected in the direction of the target and a rearward-looking missile borne receiver decodes the spatial information and thereby determines the missile's position within the beam. The missile corrects its position as necessary to remain at or near the beam center until target impact.
- This missile referenced spatial encoding method negates the need to either roll stabilize the missile, or to utilize a gyro for roll attitude measurement. This capability would be particularly desirable in lightweight, low cost, short range (350 to 750 meter maximum) missile systems.
- An inherent benefit of this invention, consistent with such system requirements, is the simple, no-moving-parts beam projector that is potentially a discardable item.
- a missile referenced beamrider guidance link in which a continuous wave or pulsed laser output is formed into a gaussian cross section or similarly shaped beam and projected to one offset sensor, or to two sensors located on opposite sides and as far from the missile's roll axis as possible.
- the rolling missile motion amplitude modulates the received signal, the amplitude of which is a measure of the missile's distance from beam axis.
- the phase of the modulation provides the direction to beam center.
- the two sensor configuration provides a greater depth of modulation for a given missile position and thus, an improvement in signal to noise ratio.
- a single plane control system on a rolling missile is an ideal combination for this spatial code, thereby permitting minimization of both function and components in the ground based beam projector, in the missile borne decoding and guidance electronics, and in the control mechanism itself.
- FIG. 1 illustrates the cross section of the guidance beam relative to intensity.
- FIG. 2 illustrates the cross sections of guidance and performance beams.
- FIG. 3 illustrates the relative position of the sensors on the missile.
- FIG. 4 illustrates a field test data acquisitions system in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 5 illustrates in block diagram form the transmitter configuration as applied to the overall system.
- FIG. 6 and FIG. 7 illustrate views of the rotating wheel in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 1 illustrates the spatial code in accordance with the invention.
- Two different missile positions within the guidance beam are depicted for a given range from the beam projector.
- the depth of modulation produced by the off axis, rolling missile is a function of the missile's distance from beam center as well as its range to the beam projector.
- An automatic open loop gain program located in the missile electronics will compensate for the effect of beam divergance as the missile flys down range. As shown, the depth of modulation approaches zero for a missile directly on the beam axis.
- a reference beam is shown in FIG. 2 which is utilized in order to permit normalization of the substantial amplitude modulation resulting from atmospheric scintillation.
- the GaAs laser pulses are 120 nanoseconds wide at a few KHz PRF. A few microseconds (less than 10% of the time between pulses) after each signal beam output pulse, the reference beam, which has a near uniform intensity distribution over its cross section, is transmitted. The ratio of guidance to reference beam intensity provides a normalized, unscintillated measure of received energy.
- FIG. 3 illustrates the preferred sensor configuration on board the missile 100. Sensors A and B are placed as far from the center as possible. A variety of signal processing algorithms can be employed in the processing of the signals received at the two sensors.
- S and R refer to the "signal” or “reference” beam from which the processed voltage was derived while “a” and “b” refer to particular sensors.
- the voltage resulting from any one of these algorithms is the missile guidance signal.
- FIG. 4 illustrates the hardware that was configured for the purpose of field testing.
- the transmitter is shown in FIG. 5.
- a clock 10 (TI 556) provides the timing for laser drives 11 and 12 (LDL#LP-210C).
- Two GaAs lasers 13 and 14 (LDL#LD-167) are adjustably located relative to beam splitter 15 and therefore from lens 16.
- Lens can take the shape of a plastic Fresnel lens.
- the gaussian guidance beam intensity distribution was obtained by defocusing the laser/objective pairs.
- the more uniform "reference" beam was obtained by further defocusing of the reference beam laser 13 relative to lens 16.
- the receiver configuration in order to simplify the data acquisition system, utilized a single detector/preamp 31 as shown in FIG. 4.
- the "rolling missile simulator" depicted in FIG. 4 is further illustrated in FIGS.
- This mechanical device was used for simulating the circular motion of the detector in the guidance field. Since the raw field test data (amplitudes of received guidance and reference pulses) would ultimately be transferred to a PDP-11 mini-computer for processing in the guidance simulation, it was decided to utilize a digitally formatted data storage device.
- An AIM-65 micro-computer 35 was selected for this purpose.
- An A/D and pulse separator 32 is used to input the computer 35.
- a 32K Data storage 36 reads this information to magnetic tape 37.
- FIGS. 6 and 7 illustrate the rotating wheel used in testing the system.
- mirrors 1 and 2 are aligned such that the incoming guidance and reference beam 50 will strike mirror 1 as it is rotating about the beam and will be transferred to mirror 2 and on to detector A through the center of the wheel.
- a transparent cover 60 is fixed in space to an attachment 61.
- a further mirror 3 is mounted on a rotating wheel 180° from mirror 1.
- Mirror 2 will be coated on both sides for reflecting signals.
- a forth mirror 4 is mounted on the transparent cover 60 so as to be in line with reflection from mirror 2.
- the incoming signal 50 will be reflected off of mirror 3 onto mirror 2 and then from mirror 2 onto mirror 4. There it will travel to the detector B.
- Both detectors are mounted in a fixed relationship and do not rotate with the wheel. Of course in a actual missile, the use of mirrors and rotating wheels will not be necessary as is shown in FIG. 3.
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